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Stamp duty account: NIPOST fires back at FIRS

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The fight between two government agencies, FIRS and NIPOST is far from over. In response to claims made by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Nigerian Postal Service on Sunday said its stamp duty account was opened by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the Treasury Single Account.

The FIRS had claimed in a series of tweets last week that NIPOST operated an illegal Stamp Duty Account.

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It also vowed to ensure that all monies in the account were recovered and transferred into the Federation Account, adding that NIPOST must account for every kobo in the account.

“We hereby state categorically that the statement is false and made to misinform and mislead members of the public,” the postal agency said in a statement issued on Sunday by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Frank Alao.

In the statement titled ‘NIPOST stamp duty account was opened by CBN’, the postal agency said the account in question was opened in consultation with the Office of Accountant-General of the Federation.

It said the name of the account was NIPOST Stamp Duties Collection Account, adding that the CBN gave instruction to Deposit Money Banks to commence the deduction of N50 stamp duties from bank customers accounts at the time.

“The account belongs to the federation and NIPOST does not have access to whatsoever monies lodged into the account. As such, the question of illegality and misappropriation does not arise,” the postal organisation said.

It added, “NIPOST wishes to reiterate that under the extant laws of Nigeria to wit NIPOST Act 2004 provides and vests solely in NIPOST the power to print adhesive postage stamps, which is the instrument for denoting documents and other transaction instruments in compliance with the provisions of the Stamp Duties Act.”

It argued that historically, the post in Nigeria, just like in other nations, had at different times produced adhesive postage stamps and revenue stamps for the Federal Government.

The agency said it was to this end that NIPOST sought the proper implementation of the Finance Act.

It said, “NIPOST is therefore taken aback when FIRS took to Twitter to call out the Chairman, NIPOST Board, Maimuna Abubakar, who only tried to bring the attention of the service and the public that NIPOST would be emasculated if the Act is not properly implemented.

“This is more so when there was a meeting between FIRS and NIPOST in July 2013 in the office of the Executive Chairman of FIRS and resolution reached that ‘NIPOST is statutory duty bound to provide the stamps to be used by FIRS at both federal and state levels.’”

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